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12 April 2021
Settlement accepted for £1.25 million in a Motorcyclist v Car incident
Parklane Plowden barrister, Ian Pennock, was recently instructed by Eatons Solicitors of Bradford on a personal injury case in a high-speed Motorcycle v Car incident.A car, driven by an uninsured driver, turned in front of a 25-year-old motorcycle driver throwing him 20 feet from his bike and sustaining a multitude of injuries including:
- life threatening ruptured aorta requiring immediate and emergency treatment and major blood transfusion,
- permanent Cauda Equina syndrome (involving loss of sexual function and double incontinence requiring catheterisation and manual evacuation),
- bowel resection & splenectomy,
- Bi-lateral fractures for the pelvis and sacrum,
- spinal fractures involving T1, T2, T5 & T6 and damage to the spinal cord,
- bi-lateral renal partial infarctions,
- Multi Ligament left knee injury and left foot drop,
- fracture of the left wrist and right shin requiring O.R.I.F.,
- a risk of delayed traumatic epilepsy,
- continuing chest and lung problems
- orthopaedic surgeons,
- spinal surgeon,
- neurologist,
- neuropsychologist,
- psychiatrist,
- urological surgeon,
- general physician,
- occupational therapist,
- maxillofacial,
- general surgeon,
- pain management
- psychiatry.